“Many are less fortunate than you’ may not be a roof to live under, but it will serve to retire beneath in the event of a shower.”

“I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions.”

“You can make a good living from soothsaying but not from truthsaying”

“If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.”

“Honest unaffected distrust of human abilities under all circumstances is the surest sign of strength of mind.”

“It is impossible to have bad taste, but many people have none at all.”

“There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.”